Leadership Consulting

Having the right talent at the right time in the right place working in the right team and environment and delivering the right results for the organization is key to future business success and growth.

However, having the right talent and recruiting the right talent is not and will not be enough. We provide support every step of the way through proper onboarding, collaborative teams, agile and dynamic organization design and training on inclusive leadership.

To help navigate the future business landscape, our experts work side by side with the C-Suite leadership teams offering crafted consulting solutions.

Our detailed program is applicable across all industries and practice areas.

Onboarding new leaders

To onboard newly selected executives into their roles using assessment data, senior stakeholder interviews and culture cues

Candidate assessments

Leadership support programs based on assessments

Leadership team assessments for better Performance

Coaching and mentoring support to identified leadership team members, with a view to successfully land or enhance performance in a role. Leadership team succession planning

Leadership team succession planning

Work with the CHRO for succession planning and feeder pipeline. Identification of high potential C-suite leaders

Organizational assessment based on benchmarking

Work with the client on benchmarking of organizational metrics, charts, practices and come up with strategic change proposals for short term and long term.

Personal branding

Enable the leadership team member to be more effective with all stakeholders, including colleagues, customers, investors, political authorities and the media. Structured coaching programme for identified leadership team members, to enhance performance in their roles.

Connecting People and Science

Through our strategic partnership with scan.up, we utilize scientifically proven methods to analyze candidates’ potential customized to our clients’ needs.

Leadership Consulting Team

Umran Beba

Partner - Search & Advisory

Umran Beba is an experienced senior business executive with general management, talent and diversity background.

Andrea B. Thomas

Advisory Partner

Andrea B. Thomas is an advisory partner at August Leadership.

Nadeem Baig

Advisory Partner

Nadeem Baig, based in London is a senior business executive with extensive global human capital leadership experience in the Consumer Goods, Retail & Industrial sectors.

Tiffany Goodlet

Partner

With over 25 years of business consulting experience, Tiffany is known for being a trusted business advisor to executives. She is recognized for her expertise in people strategy and her ability to assess top talent for critical roles.

Michael Maeder

Managing Partner - Asia

Michael is Cofounder & Managing Partner of August Leadership in China and IOT ONE, a global IoT consulting practice.

Jane Feng

Regional Advisory Partner

Jane Feng is an Advisory Partner of August Leadership, based in Shanghai.

John Purkiss

Partner

John has over 20 years’ experience in executive search. He set up and ran the CFO Practice in Heidrick & Struggles’ London office, and was promoted to Partner. Since then he has recruited senior executives and board members for a wide range of companies.

Karsten Matthes

Partner

Outstanding industry knowledge especially in Pharma, Life Science & Healthcare, an extensive international network, profound and successful expertise in consulting as well as search and selection of specialists and executives distinguish Karsten as an executive search professional.

Christine Sobhani

Partner

Christine Sobhani brings over 20 years of recruitment experience to August Leadership. She is a leader in the talent acquisition and talent management space with a focus in HR and leadership roles across industries.